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Getting picked on, being told to piss off being a Singapore Airlines air stewardess wasnt always so glamorous for the actress.
The actual job, however, had a few bumpy encounters along the way. While a majority of her colleagues were very pleasant, there were also a few she deemed more demanding, hard to get along with, not as nice and two-faced. They would be nice to you in front of higher-ranking staff, but when youre alone they would keep scolding you.
In the worst incident she could remember, someone picked on her so badly that she had to run to the washroom to calm herself down. I was on the verge of tears, she recalled, adding that she doesnt think she did anything wrong, or that she was a target because of her status as a public figure.
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Then there were the passengers. The most memorable (read: traumatising) incident happened when Kimberly, then only a month or two into the job, had to pacify an unreasonable Caucasian woman who was unhappy about other travellers crossing her aisle to get to the toilet.
Just as I was walking towards her, a passenger crossed her aisle and she screamed at me, How could you keep letting this happen!? I was still very new and didnt know how to handle it, so I just asked her, Im so sorry, is there anything else I can do for you? and she told me to piss off really loudly.
I was shocked and almost wanted to cry because I never expected to get shouted at like that, but everyone else was really nice because they knew it wasnt my fault. Yikes.
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But of course at the end of the day, the perks outweighed these occasional little horrors. Besides getting to visit almost every city Singapore Airlines has a direct flight to, Kimberly enjoyed a handsome monthly salary that ranged from S$4,000 to as high as S$6,000. She also got to serve a few celebrities on board, including Tay Ping Hui, Paige Chua, Lee Teng, as well as South Korean actors Seo Kang Joon and Lee Dong Hwi, who were in town to promote their drama Entourage in 2016.
Alas, after two years of flying high, Kimberly has handed in her kebaya to return to her first and biggest love: acting. I missed acting so much and was really looking forward to coming back, she said, sharing that she has signed a new three-year contract with NoonTalk Media after leaving them briefly to join SQ.
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The doe-eyed lass already has two upcoming dramas in the works: Toggle Originals series Love at Cavenagh Bridge and Channel 8s Say Cheese (we caught up with her at the imaging session for the latter), in which she plays a model and will be paired up with her label mate Zong Zijie.
When asked if shes afraid that viewers may have forgotten her due to her long absence from the screen (plus the recent bombardment of new faces on television hey, even we find it tough to keep up sometimes), Kimberly said that may not necessarily be a bad thing. I want audiences to see a new, more matured and grown-up me, she explained.
And our obvious next question: what are her thoughts on giving up an SQ Girls lucrative pay, which, frankly speaking, would be hard to match as an actress? Its not a problem, she shrugged. I didnt think about my salary decreasing or whatever because thats not my priority.
Getting picked on, being told to piss off being a Singapore Airlines air stewardess wasnt always so glamorous for the actress.
The actual job, however, had a few bumpy encounters along the way. While a majority of her colleagues were very pleasant, there were also a few she deemed more demanding, hard to get along with, not as nice and two-faced. They would be nice to you in front of higher-ranking staff, but when youre alone they would keep scolding you.
In the worst incident she could remember, someone picked on her so badly that she had to run to the washroom to calm herself down. I was on the verge of tears, she recalled, adding that she doesnt think she did anything wrong, or that she was a target because of her status as a public figure.
Then there were the passengers. The most memorable (read: traumatising) incident happened when Kimberly, then only a month or two into the job, had to pacify an unreasonable Caucasian woman who was unhappy about other travellers crossing her aisle to get to the toilet.
Just as I was walking towards her, a passenger crossed her aisle and she screamed at me, How could you keep letting this happen!? I was still very new and didnt know how to handle it, so I just asked her, Im so sorry, is there anything else I can do for you? and she told me to piss off really loudly.
I was shocked and almost wanted to cry because I never expected to get shouted at like that, but everyone else was really nice because they knew it wasnt my fault. Yikes.
But of course at the end of the day, the perks outweighed these occasional little horrors. Besides getting to visit almost every city Singapore Airlines has a direct flight to, Kimberly enjoyed a handsome monthly salary that ranged from S$4,000 to as high as S$6,000. She also got to serve a few celebrities on board, including Tay Ping Hui, Paige Chua, Lee Teng, as well as South Korean actors Seo Kang Joon and Lee Dong Hwi, who were in town to promote their drama Entourage in 2016.
Alas, after two years of flying high, Kimberly has handed in her kebaya to return to her first and biggest love: acting. I missed acting so much and was really looking forward to coming back, she said, sharing that she has signed a new three-year contract with NoonTalk Media after leaving them briefly to join SQ.
The doe-eyed lass already has two upcoming dramas in the works: Toggle Originals series Love at Cavenagh Bridge and Channel 8s Say Cheese (we caught up with her at the imaging session for the latter), in which she plays a model and will be paired up with her label mate Zong Zijie.
When asked if shes afraid that viewers may have forgotten her due to her long absence from the screen (plus the recent bombardment of new faces on television hey, even we find it tough to keep up sometimes), Kimberly said that may not necessarily be a bad thing. I want audiences to see a new, more matured and grown-up me, she explained.
And our obvious next question: what are her thoughts on giving up an SQ Girls lucrative pay, which, frankly speaking, would be hard to match as an actress? Its not a problem, she shrugged. I didnt think about my salary decreasing or whatever because thats not my priority.